200 GRECIAN AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Oil. 1 9, 



merely to fhow that it is probable our partiality for thi:. 

 art, and the habits of rnind we have lorx'^ been accul- 

 tomed to indulge, have introduced yi^/j«j in this rc- 

 fpeft that are perhaps as little compatible with real 

 beauty or propriety as the parterres, and walls, and 

 clipped hedges, (o much admired by our anceftors, 

 was confiftent with true taile in gardening ; or the 

 fquare tails and formal plaits of our coats at prefent, 

 are compatible with that elegance which ought per- 

 haps to charadlerile the drefs of a man of cultivated 

 talte. 



(To he continued. J 



Fir the Bee. 



Eulogy cfThouifon the Poet, delivered by the Ear! of Biichan 

 f on Ednani Hill, nvhen he croivncd the jirjl Edition of 



the Seafons ivith a Wreath of Bays, on the 2ld cf 



September 1791. 



Gentlemen, 



J.T has been the cuflom of that great and refpeclable 

 nation, the French, to pronounce, at the meetings of 

 men of genius, learning, and tafte, the praifes- of the 

 illullrious dead ; and this cuitom has been adopted by 

 other countries, as emerging from barbarity, they be- 

 came gradually fcnfible of the great fuperiority of men 

 eminent in fcience, and endowed with learning and 

 tafte, over the ignorant and illiterate, however high in 

 power, or dignified by titles. 



They fav/ and deplored the rude inlljtutions of their 

 favage anceftors — inftitutions which covered men with 

 honours, according to the whim or prejudice of illite- 

 rate princes, and left the real benefaclors and orna-t 

 meats of focicty to languilh in obfcurity. Fortunately, 

 born as wc have bj;cn, in the age of a Frederick the 



